Author shares her family's personal reading success stories and Identifies their favorite books for each age category. Extensive reading lists by titles and authors -- over 600 children's books referenced.
Argues that the decline in reading by children in the United States is furthered by schools by focusing on test-taking and focusing solely on academic texts with guidance for educators on how to conteract this trend.
Encourages teachers to use reading ladders to start their students with the authors, genres, or subjects they like then connect them to book after book, each a little more complex or challenging than the last.
Nicholson Baker's book U and I, concerning his youthful obsession with John Updike, is a funny but also touching account of this kind of connection. Baker would cry out in pleasure after reading one of Updike's famously lapidary ...
A clear-eyed love letter to the greatest children’s books and authors, from Louisa May Alcott and L. Frank Baum to Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, Mildred D. Taylor, and E.B. White, Wild Things will bring back fond memories for readers of all ages ...
I had associated Matty with the shell-shocked soldiers of the Great War since reading 'Futility' by Wilfred Owen. Owen is a character in Regeneration along with Siegfried Sassoon, who makes some corrections to Owens's poem 'Anthem for.
This is a set of prose selections, poetry and short stories with detailed exercises in comprehension, vocabulary and language work, both multiple choice and subjective questions.
Ryan O’Rourke’s rich artwork beautifully captures the imagination and playfulness in these poems by noted author Amy Ludwig VanDerwater.
The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn ...
This inspiring book shows how K–12 teachers, literacy specialists and coaches, and school- and district-level administrators can work together to make needed instructional improvements while fostering a lifelong love of reading and ...
This is the one book that brings together everything you need to know about the classics you missed and ignites your passion to read and reread the greatest books the world has ever known. This book is the fruit of a lifelong love affair.